Bixo Hackathon September 7th & 8th

While that’s probably a long jaunt for many, even if you can’t make it you can still help by providing input on areas of Bixo that you think need the most love.

Note that even if you’re not a hard-core Bixo user, fringe benefits from participating include learning a lot about the very useful underlying technologies (Cascading, Hadoop, HttpClient) as well as getting an excuse to visit beautiful Nevada City, California.

Some known issues are:

Documentation & tutorials (of course).

Changing the xxxDatum data model to be wrappers for Cascading tuples, versus POJOs.

Making datum metadata into a single unchecked field in datums passed through pre-defined sub-assemblies.